Aboriginal Literature
You are required to submit a final essay for this Unit of Study by the end of semester.
Your final essay will be in answer to the following question.
Your essay should draw on the writings of Aboriginal writers such as Kim
Scott, Alexis Wright. Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Lionel Fogerty. Your essay
should be appropriately referenced to academic bibliographic standards.
The essay question is:
“In all of my fictional writing I want to conjure up my homeland. I want
to explore the gift of our true inheritances by disallowing memories of
times passed to sink into oblivion. I am interested in the reality of
our social, political and economic and cultural position in today’s
Australia as a consequence of the continuing invasion and our ongoing
war against genocide. However, I am also interested in our lives before
the invasion, our culture in spite of the invasion, and I’m searching
for the corners of the soul where joy can be found.”
Wright, Alexis. “Politics of Writing.” Southerly 62.2 (2002): 19.
In the light of the above statement by Alexis Wright, and referring
to the work of at least two Indigenous writers (names mentioned above),
discuss modern Aboriginal literature and its social,
political and cultural contexts.
Assessment criteria:
Writing is characterised by creativity, clarity and independent insight
throughout a sustained and coherent examination of the key issues;
competency in writing and referencing.
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